Dr LaRonde is a very nice professor. But, she is horrible when it comes to teaching. Her homeworks and exams are a mess, most of her homeworks are from biochemistry books and her exams are hard!She is a horrible lecturer and needs to work on her presentation skills. She tends to get off track easily and her slides are bad too. I hope she improves next semester so that students suffer through her class. If you go through her previous year exams they are very helpful as she tends to chose some questions from them. If you can just avoid her!

Dr. LaRonde is a nice person and it really is not too hard to do well in her class. The homeworks are easy because she allows multiple attempts, but they are long, so start early and ask questions because she is approachable, although may seem as being kind of reserved. She allows notecards for all her exams and some of the questions are similar to or repeated from past exams. However, I wish she managed her time better so that the end of the semester wouldn't be so rushed. I do doubt my preparedness for Biochem 2, and only time will resolve my doubts. If someone intends to take just Biochem 1, then she is a good choice.

AnonymousCourse: BCHM461Grade Expected: BMay 22, 2012, 9:42 am

She's alright. She's not the most interesting lecturer (you'll probably fall asleep), but her class is not that hard. At the end it gets kinda crazy with all the stuff you have to memorize (carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids). She reuses multiple choice questions on homeworks and tests, and you could find the MC questions to the hw online. I think she gets them from a databank. Her exams can be long, so be sure to do them quickly.

Not a great lecturer, but is generally responsive to student concerns. Exams were very fair if not easy because she posts a list of topics that will be covered on the exam, an old exam from a previous year, and allows a note card for the exam. I would recommend doing the homework before taking the exam because some of the homework problems appeared on the exams. All in all, it's not that hard to get an A in her class if you're one of those people who are good at teaching themselves out of the book.

AnonymousCourse: BCHM461Grade Expected: A-June 16, 2011, 12:18 pm

Granted this may not be the best of all professors, but honestly what would you rather have, a great amazing professor who gives you a "C" or a mediocre professor who reads off of slides and hands out easy "A's" (Dr. Leblanc)? Exactly....you're still reading this review now aren't you. Here's the low-down: I went to every class to take good notes, but at the end of the day realized the notes don't matter since everything is in the book and on the slides. Honestly just wait for 1 week before the exam when she posts the review questions/practice exam and memorize/study that since the exam is almost identical. The group assignments can be annoying but try to do well, because it can boost your grade. Lastly, we had a notecard for every exam to put whatever we wanted on it...this helped A LOT. Overall, boring professor (but she's SO NICE) and easy A for a difficult subject matter. It also takes minimal studying/effort until right before the exam. You will not regret choosing Dr. Laronde-Leblanc.

AnonymousCourse: BCHM461Grade Expected: BDecember 18, 2010, 3:16 pm

This woman has absolutely no idea how to teach. She reads straight from her slides in monotone for an hour and 15 minutes, and enjoys muttering important information so noone could hear. Going to class was completely pointless. I'm also pretty sure she has no clue what she's teaching since she often messed up problems halfway through during class and mixed up certain terms that were opposites. She is also extremely lazy. She didn't get through all of the material for the semester by about 6 lectures...so now if you're taking Biochem 2 you're pretty much screwed.
However, the one shining beacon for this class is that she recycles questions, uses the review guide WORD FOR WORD on the tests, and allows you to use a 4x6 notecard on every test (including the exam).
So yeah, if you want an easy grade, take her class. If you don't want to be royally screwed for biochem 2, don't take her.